COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Communication Skills

Communication Skills

Key Skills are vital for everyone. There are many different key skills, which cover different types of knowledge and understanding. I am going to look at 7 key skills, which fall under one of two distinct categories, Personal Attributes and Interactive Attributes.

I will look at each Key Skill in turn, assessing my current ability and then, using different methods suitable for that particular skill, plan to improve on an aspect of the skill. I will present all of my findings and use evidence to support this. I will make use of work from my current studies to illustrate the findings.

As the popular phrase suggests, we 'learn something new everyday'. This can be considered to be true as there is an infinite amount of information in the world for us to learn. One person could never know everything there is to know. From this analysis, you can conclude that there must be many different methods of learning and skills that accompany each different method (Fanning 2005). There are simple things that a person learns, such as, how to ride a bike and how to use cutlery. Then there are the more complex things to learn such as becoming a doctor. The first, simple example, illustrates learning that would be carried out by a small child, more than likely taught by his or her parents. The second example, however illustrates learning that can only be achieved by studying at school and then University.

To improve on your own learning and performance, a person must first understand what preferred learning style they have. Then they must adapt to the other learning styles, if required, and alter the ways in which they currently learn, in order to achieve they're set objective.

There are two main elements to communication, written and oral. Both elements are ...